International Journal of Trend in Scientific
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Robotic Monitoring of Power Systems
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Rameez Rashid1, Naseer Ganiee2
M.Tech Scholar, Department
ment of Electrical Engineering, RIMT University, Punjab, India
2
Director/Founder MindGates, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India
ABSTRACT
Information technology plays a very important role in
the progress and development of country. The
technology domain is present in every sector like
banking, e-commerce,
commerce, tourism etc. The applications
are developed using number of platforms and people
are using applications more and more for number of
tasks. This paper focus on IOT technology and how it
is implemented in power systems like power grids to
make proper automation and minimize problems that
we face in manual system.
Keywords: Sensor, IOT, Smart Grid, Wi
Wi-FI.
I.
INTRODUCTION
Economically effective maintenance and monitoring
of power systems to ensure high quality and reliability
of electric power supplied to customers is becoming
one of the most significant tasks of today’s power
industry. As with any preventive maintenance
technology, the efforts spent on the status monitoring
are justified by the reduction of the fault occurrence
and elimination of consequent losses due to disruption
of electric power, damage to equipment, and
emergency equipment replacement costs. In the past
few years, there have been several significant
developments on monitoring technologies for
distribution power cables. This review describes
technical results relevant to mobile
bile sensing of
distributed systems, especially for maintenance tasks.
IOT technology is considered an essential imperative
for Smart Grids (SGs). However, IOT devices have
inherently limited responsiveness that may not be
sufficient for a time critical SG
G with strict demands on
communication delay. In practice, it remains an
outstanding problem to combine IOT technology with
existing grids. To facilitate deployment of IOT
IOT-based
grids in domestic environments, we propose IOT
IOT-grid,
a programmable, small-scale,
scale, grid that can be easily
implemented with low-power
power hardware with limited
processing
capacity.
The
proposed
grid
accommodates existing small-scale
small
DC power
systems (e.g. solar panels) and we then explore the
communication aspects of IOT-grid,
IOT
namely, control
and monitoring functions. We observe that processing
delays of IOT devices have large impact on IOT-grid,
IOT
which cause a chain of control commands to take
considerable longer time as the number of commands
increases. To mitigate this problem, we propose
p
a
mechanism based on sending burst commands with
scheduled responses. Our experimental results show
that, in the presence of processing delays, this method
can significantly reduce the overall response time.
To Make power systems more efficient and
Information Technology enabled it is very important
to incorporate smart concept in Grid Stations. A
Smart Grid is simply a combination of electrical and
infrastructure using IT service within existing
electrical network.
II. Problem Formulation
Energy generation companies supply electricity to all
the households via intermediate controlled power
transmission hubs known as Electricity Grid.
Sometimes problems arise due to failure of the
electricity grid leading to black out of an entire area
which was getting supply from that particular grid.
This research aims to solve this problem using IOT as
the means of communication and also tackling various
other issues which a smart system can deal with to
avoid unnecessary losses to the Energy producers.
Apart
part from monitoring the Grid it is very important to
monitor energy consumption and even theft of
electricity to make proper use of electricity. The
amount of electricity consumed and the estimated cost
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of the usage needs to be updated on the webpage
along with the Energy Grid information.
 To display full energy grid information on the
webpage.
III. Research Objectives
The main objectives of my research are described
below:
 Imparting sensors in electrical domain.
 The complete configuration of different sensors
used.
 Measurement of current, voltage and power.
 Establish the capability of controlling various high
capacity load appliances using the proposed and
developed approach.
 To In-corporate smart concept in Electrical
Engineering.
 To avoid unnecessary losses to the energy
producers using IOT.
 To monitor energy consumption and theft of
electricity.
 To display electricity consumed with the
estimated cost of usage on a webpage.
IV. Methodology
1. Existing Methodology
The grid starts with a fundamental equation that
governs it. Simply put this equation is:
2. Proposed Methodology
Work is based on the concept that whenever one grid
station which transfers the power to households is
interrupted due to some fault ,with the help of IOT
based technologies we can connect all the loads
connected to grid station with some other station so
that power supplied does not get interrupted. The
existing methodology does the same work but
manually .The current strategy provide us the way to
connect the IOT technology to the power station so
that this can be done with the help of a particular
software with the help of the single click.
Generation=Load Generation =Load
The power grid is a network that carries takes energy,
converts it to electricity and delivers it you, the
consumer. Currently, for the most part, energy is
produced in central generation stations. These are
power plants that produce electricity by turning a
generator. There are many ways to turn a generator,
from using wind, to burning natural gas or coal to spin
a turbine. From the power plant, electricity then enters
what is known as the power grid. The basic electric
system is shown below.
Energy generation companies supply electricity to all
the households via intermediate controlled power
transmission hubs known as Electricity Grid.
Sometimes problems arise due to failure of the
electricity grid leading to black out of an entire area
which was getting supply from that particular grid.
This project aims to solve this problem using IOT as
the means of communication and also tackling various
other issues which a smart system can deal with to
avoid unnecessary losses to the Energy producers.IOT
Smart Energy Grid is based on ATmega family
controller which controls the various activities of the
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system. The system communicates over internet by
using Wi-Fi technology. A bulb is used in this work to
demonstrate as a valid consumer and a bulb to
demonstrate an invalid consumer. The foremost thing
that this project facilitates is re-connection of
transmission line to active grid. If an Energy Grid
becomes faulty and there is an another Energy Grid,
the system switches the Transmission Lines towards
this Grid thus facilitating uninterrupted electricity
supply to that particular region whose Energy Grid
went OFF. And this information of which Grid is
active is updated over IOTGecko webpage where the
authorities can login and can view the updates. Apart
from monitoring the Grid this work has advances
capabilities of monitoring energy consumption and
even detects theft of electricity. The amount of
electricity consumed and the estimated cost of the
usage gets updated on the IOTGecko webpage along
with the Energy Grid information. Theft conditions
are simulated in the system using two switches.
Switching one each time will simulate a theft
condition and also will notify the authorities over the
IOT interface. In this way the Smart Energy Grid
project makes sure that the electricity supply is
continuous and helps in maintaining a updated record
of consumption and theft information which is quite a
valuable information for the energy producing
companies.
3. Proposed Block Diagram
V. Conclusion
A revolution in energy domain is underway, namely
the Smart Grid. Smart Grid is a user friendly
technology and user can check daily consumption
from any location using internet. Owner can control
customer meter from control unit. Smart grid
represents one of the most promising and prominent
internet of things applications. More efficient
transmission of electricity, quicker restoration of
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electricity after power disturbances. Reduced
operations and management costs for utilities, and
ultimately lower power costs for consumers.
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